[R] Having R (not the OS) redirect stderr() to stdout()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See ?sink (and heed the warnings).

Depending on what the connections are, the stdout and stderr may or may 
not interleave correctly.

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, David Dahl wrote:

> R users,
>
> I am aware that R can be invoked such that the operating system
> redirects standard error (stderr) to standard output (stdout), but I
> want to have R itself (not the OS) redirect the connection given by
> stderr() to connection given by stdout().  Is that possible?  Perhaps
> equivalently, can I make all error messages and warnings go to
> stdout() instead of stderr()?  Any suggestions?  Thanks!
>
> -- David
>
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